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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 26, 2020 14:12:23 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 26, 2020 14:12:53 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Mar 26, 2020 14:20:26 GMT
Nuts isn't going to be happy.
At least 'it' made the list
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Mar 26, 2020 14:24:31 GMT
I don't think Road to Perdition gets enough credit.
The ending left me feeling like I got punched in the gut - but found myself questioning myself thinking, 'Wait - he really wasn't a good guy'.
Reminds me of how I felt when I was cheering/rooting for the Firefly family in The Devils Rejects when they were getting tortured - then thought to myself - 'Wait a minute - these people are supposed to be the villains'.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Mar 26, 2020 14:32:00 GMT
I also think 'Philadelphia' getting slighted here a bit - thought it was terrific - and anybody else think 'The Burbs' is a cult classic and is ranked too low  |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 26, 2020 14:38:39 GMT
I also think 'Philadelphia' getting slighted here a bit - thought it was terrific - and anybody else think 'The Burbs' is a cult classic and is ranked too low I didn't like the Burbs. Not a Forrest Gump fan either.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Mar 26, 2020 14:54:45 GMT
i think they mean it got 25 points...which makes it the winner.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Mar 26, 2020 15:10:15 GMT
My top 5 favorites of his:
1. Cast Away
2. A League of Their Own (though he was really more a supporting character)
3. Apollo 13
4. Big
5. Splash
Saving Private Ryan, while not bad, is somewhat overrated in my opinion. Not a fan of Forrest Gump. I don’t count the Toy Story films among these either.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 15:14:49 GMT
1. The Burbs
And that's it.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Mar 26, 2020 15:17:22 GMT
My top 5 favorites of his: 1. Cast Away 2. A League of Their Own (though he was really more a supporting character) 3. Apollo 13 4. Big 5. Splash Saving Private Ryan, while not bad, is somewhat overrated in my opinion. Not a fan of Forrest Gump. I don’t count the Toy Story films among these either. Because he was only providing the voice? If so, I agree. I think it is silly to lump together real acting with voice work.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Mar 26, 2020 15:18:53 GMT
My top 5 favorites of his: 1. Cast Away 2. A League of Their Own (though he was really more a supporting character) 3. Apollo 13 4. Big 5. Splash Saving Private Ryan, while not bad, is somewhat overrated in my opinion. Not a fan of Forrest Gump. I don’t count the Toy Story films among these either. Because he was only providing the voice? If so, I agree. I think it is silly to lump together real acting with voice work. Pretty much. I like the Toy Story movies and there was nothing wrong with his voice acting, but to me they should be a separate category. |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 26, 2020 15:22:18 GMT
I don't think Road to Perdition gets enough credit. The ending left me feeling like I got punched in the gut - but found myself questioning myself thinking, 'Wait - he really wasn't a good guy'. Reminds me of how I felt when I was cheering/rooting for the Firefly family in The Devils Rejects when they were getting tortured - then thought to myself - 'Wait a minute - these people are supposed to be the villains'. He was an anti-hero in Road To Perdition. He played a reluctant villain; he worked for a mobster because he needed work, not because he liked it. He wasn't a cruel man, like Rooney's son was. The final line in the film says it all, "When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them, he was my father." In other words, if the son is a good man, perhaps you should judge the father as the man who raised him. Comparing him to Devils Rejects characters is about as far off base as you can get. Easily my favorite Hanks movie, it's in my all-time top five films, period. It's laughable that his performance is ranked so low on this list while his voice work for stupid kids movies is ranked second. I easily would've thrown four or five films off this list in favor of Joe vs. The Volcano.
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Post by Honolulu on Mar 26, 2020 15:29:46 GMT
He's made so many films that I have not seen them all. My favorite 10 of Tom Hank's performances are
1. Toy Story
2. A League Of Their Own
3. Captain Phillips
4. Cast Away
5. Road To Perdition
6. Sully
7. Bachelor Party
8. Forrest Gump
9. Philedelphia
10. A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 26, 2020 15:37:32 GMT
I don't think Road to Perdition gets enough credit. The ending left me feeling like I got punched in the gut - but found myself questioning myself thinking, 'Wait - he really wasn't a good guy'. Reminds me of how I felt when I was cheering/rooting for the Firefly family in The Devils Rejects when they were getting tortured - then thought to myself - 'Wait a minute - these people are supposed to be the villains'. He was an anti-hero in Road To Perdition. He played a reluctant villain; he worked for a mobster because he needed work, not because he liked it. He wasn't a cruel man, like Rooney's son was. The final line in the film says it all, "When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them, he was my father." In other words, if the son is a good man, perhaps you should judge the father as the man who raised him. Comparing him to Devils Rejects characters is about as far off base as you can get. Easily my favorite Hanks movie, it's in my all-time top five films, period. It's laughable that his performance is ranked so low on this list while his voice work for stupid kids movies is ranked second. I easily would've thrown four or five films off this list in favor of Joe vs. The Volcano. The major flaw in the movie to me was always the sort of deus ex machina ending. It's barely, and sort of lazily, set up that they've encountered a kindly older couple who never had a child but wanted one, so now this kid has somewhere to go. It would have worked so much better for me if his fate was left uncertain at the end. It was a cheap semi-happy ending that wasn't earned. Still a hihg quality film, but that really detracts from the story to me. Also, the Toy Story movies are objectively not stupid. They're more emotionally mature and intellectually engaging than much of this list. Just because they're 'for kids' doesn't make them mindless. That would be like saying Road to Perdition is dumb because it's a 'comic book movie.' |
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Mar 26, 2020 15:38:52 GMT
I don't think Road to Perdition gets enough credit. The ending left me feeling like I got punched in the gut - but found myself questioning myself thinking, 'Wait - he really wasn't a good guy'. Reminds me of how I felt when I was cheering/rooting for the Firefly family in The Devils Rejects when they were getting tortured - then thought to myself - 'Wait a minute - these people are supposed to be the villains'. He was an anti-hero in Road To Perdition. He played a reluctant villain; he worked for a mobster because he needed work, not because he liked it. He wasn't a cruel man, like Rooney's son was. The final line in the film says it all, "When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them, he was my father." In other words, if the son is a good man, perhaps you should judge the father as the man who raised him. Comparing him to Devils Rejects characters is about as far off base as you can get. Easily my favorite Hanks movie, it's in my all-time top five films, period. It's laughable that his performance is ranked so low on this list while his voice work for stupid kids movies is ranked second. I easily would've thrown four or five films off this list in favor of Joe vs. The Volcano. Not really.
He killed people.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 26, 2020 15:39:06 GMT
Top 10 Hanks:
1. Road To Perdition
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. Cast Away
5. Joe vs. The Volcano
6. Apollo 13
7. A League of Their Own
8. Big
9. The Burbs
10. Dragnet
HM: Splash, Captain Phillips
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Mar 26, 2020 15:45:42 GMT
I forgot about Catch Me If You Can. I loved that movie, at least DiCaprio’s role in it. For some reason I didn’t 100% care for Hanks in that one. He wasn’t bad, but I had trouble believing him as the grizzled FBI agent. Something about him just didn’t click for me.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Mar 26, 2020 15:46:55 GMT
I forgot about Catch Me If You Can. I loved that movie, at least DiCaprio’s role in it. For some reason I didn’t 100% care for Hanks in that one. He wasn’t bad, but I had trouble believing him as the grizzled FBI agent. Something about him just didn’t click for me. Christopher Walken is terrific in his role though. |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 26, 2020 15:49:33 GMT
He was an anti-hero in Road To Perdition. He played a reluctant villain; he worked for a mobster because he needed work, not because he liked it. He wasn't a cruel man, like Rooney's son was. The final line in the film says it all, "When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them, he was my father." In other words, if the son is a good man, perhaps you should judge the father as the man who raised him. Comparing him to Devils Rejects characters is about as far off base as you can get. Easily my favorite Hanks movie, it's in my all-time top five films, period. It's laughable that his performance is ranked so low on this list while his voice work for stupid kids movies is ranked second. I easily would've thrown four or five films off this list in favor of Joe vs. The Volcano. The major flaw in the movie to me was always the sort of deus ex machina ending. It's barely, and sort of lazily, set up that they've encountered a kindly older couple who never had a child but wanted one, so now this kid has somewhere to go. It would have worked so much better for me if his fate was left uncertain at the end. It was a cheap semi-happy ending that wasn't earned. Still a hihg quality film, but that really detracts from the story to me. Also, the Toy Story movies are objectively not stupid. They're more emotionally mature and intellectually engaging than much of this list. Just because they're 'for kids' doesn't make them mindless. That would be like saying Road to Perdition is dumb because it's a 'comic book movie.' Most people don't know Road To Perdition was based on a graphic novel (with a different ending), so there's no comparison with an animated film clearly aimed at children. As far as being more intellectually engaging than much of his filmography, that's a matter of personal taste. The old couple are irrelevant to the ending for me. The 'happy ending' was the son had a chance to bond with his father, and see there was more to him than what he or other people thought based on his reputation. The point was that his father didn't live to see him become the murderer he was. The old couple were just there to put a bow on the theme that Michael Jr. would have a life different from his father, which is what Michael Sr. says is his motivation a few different times during the film.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 26, 2020 15:51:31 GMT
I forgot about Catch Me If You Can. I loved that movie, at least DiCaprio’s role in it. For some reason I didn’t 100% care for Hanks in that one. He wasn’t bad, but I had trouble believing him as the grizzled FBI agent. Something about him just didn’t click for me. It's an all time classic despite Hanks terrible accent. It does an amazing job of being downright whimsical at times and flat out depressing at others. Fun score that suits the film perfectly.
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